On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 14:50:30 -0600, Jor-el wrote:
I can find the man pages for things like strcpy, printf, and
things like that on my system. I installed the glibc6-doc but that only
had info documentation in it. Where are these man pages to be found?
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 21:04:39 +0100, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote:
is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available?
No. A PostScript or PDF file simply does not contain the information needed
to convert it into a usable TeX document. It's like reconstructing eggs from
an
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 18:18:35 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
I want to install the java plugin for mozilla/galeon/konqeror on my woody
machine. Unfortunately my searches at google/download did not yield any
good links :-( I would be thankful if someone can point me to java plugin
(preferable a
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 23:09:34 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
If I use g++-3.0, do I need to build most of my own libraries?
In my limited experience, it works fine with 2.95-compiled C libraries, but
not C++ ones. Those you need to rebuild.
Ray
--
But if you look carefully at their [Microsoft's]
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 14:56:06 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
Im keen on getting a stable version of a c++ compiler for sid. the version
I have says that it is a debian prerelease version
That's because, technically speaking, it is. It is a stable release of gcc,
updated with CVS changes from
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 16:41:27 +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
except if I run make again(without doing anything else), it goes through
fine so I _cant_ reproduce the problem. Its seems to be almost random.
That's a typical sign of bad or badly configured hardware. Time to read
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 17:22:39 +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
kb_main_free is a function defined in /lib/libproc.so.x.x.x that 'top'
can't load.
Indeed, as find /lib /usr/lib -name '*.so*' -exec nm --print-file-name
--dynamic --demangle --defined-only {} \; | grep kb_main_total shows.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:12:21 +1000, john wrote:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = ,
LANG = english
^
That's not a valid locale, nor an alias for one. Most
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 20:40:39 +, Ben Hill wrote:
Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1
Or better, use the unofficial debs for the
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:38:44 -0500, Phoenix Dreamscape wrote:
First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie. I can get around
in linux, but don't know how to do any of the complicated stuff (i.e.
compiling a custom kernel)
Compiling a custom kernel is not very difficult, provided
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:52:34 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
In FreeBSD it's possible to have multiple versions of say, tcl/tk, which
is infamous for incompatible versions. It does this by installing each as
[package_name].[version].
Couldn't Debian do something like this?
Debian does
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 17:52:15 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
I read that Linux allegedly does not support real threads. My questions
on this issue are:
1. Is that statement correct at all?
That question is impossible to answer without a definition of what
constitutes real threading. Some
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 18:20:00 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
When you say Java, you are probably referring to Sun JDK 1.3, right? Do
you know by chance why it doesn't support kernel threads on Linux?
mode=cynic
Because it would give Java developers under Un*x less incentive to upgrade
from free
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 18:25:28 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
Some people's definition of that seems to include hybrid user and kernel
space threading, and in that case, the statement is correct.
Is this a big disadvantage for Linux compared
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 15:56:48 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
Just put the woody pre-release on a 9000/7350125 this weekend. It's neat.
Is this the list to discuss issues with this version of Debian?
Not quite. Debian-user is the general user list. If you have questions that
are likely to be
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:31:45 -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
I know recently that icq changes its protocol and breaking some ICQ client
Indeed. If I understand things correctly, ICQ now uses the Oscar protocol
(see http://www.rendo.dekooi.nl/~jeff/oscar/introduction.html) which is what
AOL
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 20:11:03 +1100, Steve Kieu wrote:
What is your opinion?
My opinion is that you have a lot to learn about reporting bugs. I'd
recommend reading info gcc bugs reporting (the gcc manual's How to Report
Bugs section). Crucial information that you're not supplying includes,
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:41:17 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote:
I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a blank hard
disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine.
I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing and no longer
manage to compile the same sources.
Known
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 23:36:23 -0800, Dave Steinberg wrote:
The Evolution help makes specifiec reference to these conduits, and
describes how they can be configured under the Pilot section of the
Control Center.
Do you have the gnome-control-center package installed which contains
gnomecc,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:08:37 -0600, Matt Greer wrote:
If I did decide on woody, how exactly would I install it? I know that
question has been asked many times, but I'm confused about the optimal way to
do it. Most seem to suggest installing a very minimal potato
That used to be the best
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 14:21:53 +0100, G. Soyez wrote:
It seems that the bug comes from the binutils package and can be solved by
downgrading binutils.
No it doesn't. The bug is in the kernel sources, and older versions of
binutils just happened not to fail on it whereas the newer one does.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 21:46:15 -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
can anyone clue me in as to which packages contains:
gnome-xml/tree.h
glade/glade.h
zensunni ray 8:14 /tmp lftp ftp.debian.nl/debian/dists/unstable/
cd ok, cwd=/debian/dists/unstable
lftp
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 22:21:13 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/
I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images.
I'm not sure there ought to be ones
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:40:29 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right?
Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/
Note though that there are still some bugs - in particular, last time I
used them, I had to
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:31:58 +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
which is the easiest way to read formatted sgml docs in potato?
SGML is a language in which you can define the structure documents must
conform by writing DTDs == document type definitions. Well-known DTDs are
those for HTML and
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:01:29 +1030, David Purton wrote:
Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole
timezone/time stting thing?
Not that I'm aware of.
There are lots of points which I don't quite follow...
like when I should use the (numerous) various different
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:01:10 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
awhile ago, lilo changed formats -- it was just black and white text, and
now it shows a red menu that you can choose a kernel to boot. i'd like to
get the old interface back.
is this possible?
Yes. See lilo.conf(5) on
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 21:25:40 +1100, Adam Bogacki wrote:
after almost a year of use I find that the fonts on my Gnome panels and
sub-menus has been replaced by rectangles made of dots.
Yes. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ or search for
rectangle, square in the archives for
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:26:26 -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
This doesn't necessarily happen at the same place each time. Also, once
this happens, even if I am working on another kernel, the next time I
usually get the following
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 21:06:46 -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
Things work fine if I manually 'xrdb ~/.Xdefaults'.
The various session scripts look for ~/.Xresources, not ~/.Xdefaults. mv or
ln is your friend.
HTH,
Ray
--
Gartner Group ?!? Never heard of them. What did they do in
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:48:18 +1100, Steve Kieu wrote:
bochs: # bochs: Cannot open vga font
Have you tried installing the xfonts-dosemu package?
HTH,
Ray
--
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bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 13:28:36 -0600, David Batey wrote:
I'm with an ISP having about 300 customers who use our servers for DNS,
HTTP, POP, SMTP, and on one server we have FrontPage extensions running.
We're wondering about Debian's scalability,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:12:49 +1100, Robbie Kathy wrote:
I am trying to install g++ from your stable packages website. The problem
is though, it depends on libstdc++2.10-dev before it can configure. If you
try and install libstdc++2.10-dev (also from the stable packages website),
it
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:12:32 -0800, Richard Seymour wrote:
A few weeks ago some upgrade to my woody system broke my gnucash. Whatever
font is used to display the register began showing only rectanlges and
squares.
I've been poking through the debian bug tracking system and this list off
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 15:59:04 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
[15:50:23 tmp]$ g++-3.0 -Wall -ggdb -o main main.cc
main.cc:1:20: hash_map: No such file or directory
[15:50:27 tmp]$ wc /usr/include/g++-3/hash_map
Add a '-v' to your command line, and you'll see that that directory isn't
searched:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 14:02:35 +0100, BURLET Frederic wrote:
Then (I don't know why I made that! ), I wanted to downgrade the same
package and the downgrade failed
AFAIK downgrading libc6 isn't supported.
#dpkg -i libc6_2.2.4-5_i386.deb
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
Probably your
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:22:42 +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
But will Woody always be testing? Or will Woody become stable and will
some new name be assigned to the next testing?
The latter. IIRC, the new testing tree will be named 'sarge'.
Ray
--
USDoJ/Judge Jackson: Microsoft has
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:16:39 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote:
I just upgraded from kernel version 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.13 and everything
went fine...except that it appears no modules loaded (lsmod returns
nothing).
Hmm... are you running potato (stable)? For 2.4.x kernels you need a newer
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 16:38:29 -0500, David West wrote:
I understand that apt needs Packages.gz files for the local cache.
Which can be generated quite easily through dpkg-scanpackages(8) as included
in the dpkg-dev package.
HTH,
Ray
--
Personally, I guess I'd favor a sort of modified form
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 15:45:48 +, P Kirk wrote:
Forgot the attachment.
6544 open(/usr/sbin/install-info, O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4
6544 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0
6544 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd2ec) = 0
6544 stat64(0x80fe5b0, 0x80f5ae0) = 0
6544 link(/usr/info/dir,
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:00:16 +, P Kirk wrote:
2192 open(/usr/sbin/install-info, O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4
2192 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0
2192 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd36c) = 0
2192 link(/usr/info/dir, /usr/info/dir.lock) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
permitted)
Hmm... I
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +, P Kirk wrote:
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted
Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM:
The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath does not support the creation
of hard links. and oldpath is a
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 21:43:13 -0600, Corey Halpin wrote:
1. Is there some simple way to convert a mysql database into a postgresql
database?
There are various ways. For a simple database, dump it, try to import it,
fix problems by hand, try again etc. There are also conversion utilities for
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:01:37 -0800, P Kirk wrote:
Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using
.../util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb)
...
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or
directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg -
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 13:37:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed DDD, and it looks neet, however when I am stepping
thru a simple program it fails on an ifstreem.
That's not a very clear description of your problem.
I guess you're trying to step into a function call to a
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 17:12:39 -0700, Kris Huber wrote:
I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application binaries need
to be compiled for the kernel you are running.
Regular applications (assuming they're well-written) do not depend on
particular kernel versions.
The reason
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:05:15 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Yesterday, I apt-get upgraded my sid instilation, and now when I login as
any non root from within an xterm I get Must be connected to a terminal.
This is caused by the latest libc6, and details of the problem have already
been reported;
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 13:54:58 -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote:
As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package?
Yes, in unstable. See
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html for why it's not in
testing yet.
HTH,
Ray
--
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:59:19 -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote:
how can I tell GCC to use another install of glibc somewhere else on the
system??
There is no single switch for that; there are a numer of switches you need
to use in combination.
Tell the preprocessor using -nostdinc, -nostdinc++,
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:02:08 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote:
Does anyone else get this damn delivery-error msg from polska on every
post on debian-user, too??
Yes.
How could we get that obviously incorrect email-address off the list?
By asking the listmasters to remove it, which I've already
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 23:41:45 -0500, shock wrote:
i'm running xchat on a woody installation. the problem is that when xchat
starts, instead of letters, all i see is square boxes.
See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under Fonts missing after
upgrade and
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 16:21:30 -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
Lo, on Thursday, October 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write:
I'd like to change the default console text from white to blue on
blackground ;). also xterm (from black over white to blue on
blackground)
Can't help you with the
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 21:35:02 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
In unstable, however (and I don't recall exactly when it changed), the
Apps menu is a huge blodgerous mess, with seemingly every other program on
the system stuck into the top-level Apps menu. THe resulting menu is so
long that it
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 14:50:00 -0400, dman wrote:
Hey, yeah, xfontsel is a pretty neat tool.
It would be nice if it showed which specific font it was displaying when
it says 20 matches.
Try gtkfontsel. It does a similar job to xfontsel, but its interface is
quite a bit more friendly and its
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 13:38:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get the following error when trying to launch certain KDE applications
(spec. kdevelop or quanta):
quanta: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2: undefined symbol:
polish__7KDialog
It looks like quanta was compiled against
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 16:50:55 -0400, Ken Mead wrote:
bash: man: command not found
apt-get install man-db
HTH,
Ray
--
RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one
the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:51:41 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
I have a problem with some fonts displaying the text as squares instead of
the letters.
See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under X fonts.
HTH,
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 21:06:48 +, Hans Steinraht wrote:
I did a apt-get remove --purge skipstone and mozilla-browser, followed
with a new install, but the only what Skipstone says while starting it is
a little spinning of my harddisk and further nothing.
A new mozilla (0.9.5) has
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:23:44 +0200, Frank Preut wrote:
hm, i didn't find that very useful.. does that mean, trying to apt-get
mozilla 0.9.5-2_i386 isn't possible because the way it is packaged it can't
decide which to install first so that it works.. ?!
That's just a peculiarity of the
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 13:45:08 +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote:
On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires
Python. However, the author states that it is illegal to link against
versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant?
From python2-base's
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 20:48:05 +, Johann Spies wrote:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = en_GB,
LC_CTYPE = iso_8859_1,
LANG = (unset)
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).
Try something along the lines of
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_COLLATE=C
I have
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 22:57:25 +0200, Frank Preut wrote:
does anyone know why mozilla in woody isn't linked to the pool (i.e.,
basically, sid): the latest mozilla packages (i'm manually downloading the
debs for 0.9.5 right now) are in the pool on the non-us servers.. but why
does woody still
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 15:15:15 +0200, Marco Heusler wrote:
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong ?
Yes. You are attempting to put a 2.4.x kernel on a potato box. Potato wasn't
meant to be able to do that. You need updated packages for that, preferably
those from
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 22:57:20 +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
I used dpkg -L htdig | xargs grep -l acroread. Now I know that the
wrong path is hard-coded in each of the following binaries:
Does this mean I need to recompile htdig?
Yes.
(Given that I don't actually use it I'll probably just
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 16:43:01 -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
There was a recent error in one of the configuration files for X in
unstable.
In /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start, change
exec $REALSTARTUP
to
exec $REALSTARTUP
HTH,
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:16:58 -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
Instead, I get mostly dashed-rectangular boxes
Check out http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ on Fonts missing after
upgrade.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:33:18 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
I think the problem may be in the libraty routine getaddrinfo()
What shared library contains this?
find /lib /usr/lib -name '*.so*' -exec nm --dynamic --demangle --defined-only
--print-file-name {} \; | grep getaddrinfo
will tell
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 21:10:17 +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
/etc/cron.daily/htdig:
PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread
Looks like some perl script is misconfigured. But I cannot find a way to
set the path for acroread. Where is it set?
Most likely you can find out
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation?
I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've encountered no problems with
2.95.x in my configurations. There's a diff at
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 17:23:17 -0400, Jonathan Kemp wrote:
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables.
Run the ./configure with a -v and look in the config.log for clues. A
typical cause is
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:02:31 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel.
It's a separate patch at the moment, AFAIK. It is included in at least Alan
Cox' series of patches for 2.4 kernels (where you need to say [*] Prompt for
development
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 19:56:14 +, Marc Weldon wrote:
I am starting a new company, and I was curious to know what services and/or
products you offer in the way of computer security.
The information at http://www.debian.org/intro/about#what and
http://www.debian.org/security/ should go a
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 20:32:33 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
certain programs, like plan, dia, display text as dotted rectangles,
and not even one per letter.
See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under Fonts missing after
upgrade.
HTH,
Ray
--
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:09:51 +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote:
When I run it, it appears with all menu text characters displayed as small
dashed squares, so it is unusable.
See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ .
HTH,
Ray
--
UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 22:19:53 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
Sorry for CC'ing, not sure you are subscribed to debian-user,
I am.
I made a mistake, these binaries were actually not compiled by me. (I
compiled a lot of stuff lately, I got a little confused ;) So maybe it was
*compiled* on
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 17:44:43 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
Indeed. But there have been Red Hat releases in the past on which
applications where compiled to use a hardwired library search path by
default.
This program might have been compiled on a RH system, but it depends on
the
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 13:16:04 -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
I'm trying to connect to the debian machine from a win box using tera
term, it connects fine, but if i do a clear, or try to run mc or pine or
mutt i get 'vt320': unknown terminal type. and other errors related to
that...
The
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 23:04:36 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
Since 3 weeks i am not able to caompile anthing biger (eg. QT, KDE ...).
After some compilieing time (10 mins) the system hangs up compleetly!!!
No user-level task should be able to hang your system completely (except if
you
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 14:40:33 +0200, Bas van Gils wrote:
I have a sig-11 problem. Now, I know that this usually means: broken RAM.
That the most common cause. There are however many other potential causes;
see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 for the list.
HTH,
Ray
--
Obsig: developing a new
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:24:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does this happen to look familiar to anyone?
loki:/home/odin# apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/fpt could not be found.
^^^
Looks like you misspelled ftp as fpt
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 15:38:17 -0400, Eric Whitestone wrote:
I've installed communicator 4.77.
Through a Debian package?
When I try to run netscape, it gives me this error:
$ /usr/bin/X11/netscape: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: No such file or directory
When i go to
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 00:16:38 -0700, bob parker wrote:
I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no avail.
dpkg -l 'postgres*' will inform you that it is 6.5.3. A version of 7.1 built
for potato is available from
http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html
HTH,
Ray
--
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:08:08 +0200, pink panther wrote:
My first question: what is this signal 11 mean?
Most likely, it indicates bad or badly configured (e.g. overclocked)
hardware. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 .
HTH,
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:52 -0400, elawson wrote:
Anyway, my question is how does one reconfigure debconf after installation?
dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf
HTH,
Ray
--
LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto-
destructive imaginations in order to ensure that
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 00:38:49 -0700, Luis R Finotti wrote:
gmc: error while loading shared
libraries: /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32: undefined symbol: __db185_open
On an up to date unstable system,
find /lib /usr/lib -type f -name '*.so*' -exec \
nm --dynamic --defined-only
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:07:54 -0400, Mark Copper wrote:
I am running dpkg-buildpackage on unstable Gnumeric sources. Make
exits with error saying that it cannot find /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.la.
Check the debian/control file. It states the build dependencies, including
libgnome-dev which in
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 14:09:57 -0400, Mark Copper wrote:
I want to gnumeric installed on top of debian potato. (Don't need anything
else from gnome right now). Trouble is that the stable version is too far
out of date,
True.
and the testing version won't install (needed libgal4 package
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:31:28 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g. rearranging
XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope what appears to
be a bug in gnome-print is resolved.
Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/111782 . Greg
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 23:53:31 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
http://www.consulting.net.nz/print_preview.png
This is Debian unstable on x86 running GNOME. Evolution, gedit, etc. are
all printing rectanges.
See the threads Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others [1],
Fonts in GTK [2]
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 15:31:22 -0400, Steve Gran wrote:
I've RTFM, and all I can find is how to set the display line wrap, but not
the send line wrap. I suppose it should be done through the editor?
Yes.
HTH,
Ray
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:08:50 -0800, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
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the intent to use them, and don\222t see much posted here on their
Octal 222 is not a valid character in ISO 8859-1, so the
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:23:28 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
Thanks. I played with the charset variable in mutt, didn't seem to do
much, except without it an ê comes out as a ?, while with it,
(iso-8859-1 or C), and without LANG environment variable, it comes out
as \352.
The charset
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 18:11:03 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say...
dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2.
DEPRECIATE
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 5th ed. says to feel and express
disapproval of
Karsten and others have already explained the evils of jeopardy-style
quoting, so I won't go into that again. I have some other remarks though.
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 13:53:24 -0600, John Galt wrote:
In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet.
I'm well aware that debian-user is
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 21:52:30 +0200, Timeboy wrote:
And the same happens if i write e new mail to debians user-list. Any idea
why this happens?
Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers
of debian-user is buggy; it is sending error messages to people who send
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:26:35 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
Now, 'use postfix response' ??
Reply below the text you're responding to.
To borrow a sig: Answering above the the original message is called top
posting. Sometimes also called the Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q A not A
Q. -- Bob
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 15:59:13 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
Does your time calculation (as little as 5 days) include the
dependencies as well?
No. 5 days is the minimal time for a medium priority upload to unstable to
percolate to testing.
Ray
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:02:12 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
I've had gnumeric (0.64-1) running in woody for several months without
problems.
If you have it installed already, there's no problem. If you want to install
it for the first time on a woody machine, most likely you can't, as the
Michael, please fix your mail setup. Your message had
Mail-Followup-To: mtaylor, debian-user@lists.debian.org
which is broken.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:22:19 -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
Gnumeric has been updated in sid a couple of times in the past few days.
I am told that sid -
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 17:41:14 -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote:
is this something the gdb package maintainer should be notified about, or
the ddd/kdb ones or none of the above?
As DDD maintainer I am aware of this, and stand by the dependency. While DDD
may work with the gdb version in
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